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2008
RRofihe Trophy
For an unpublished short story
(up to 5,000 words)
Winner Receives:
$500 cash
Trophy
Publication in Open City
Judged by Rick Rofihe
2008 Contest Assistant: Carolyn Wilsey
Carolyn Wilsey has read fiction for Esquire and Swink
Guidelines
--Stories should be typed, double-spaced, on 8 1/2 x 11 paper with the author’s
name and contact information on the first page and name and story title on the
upper right corner of remaining pages.
--Submissions must be postmarked by September 15, 2008
--Limit one submission per author
--Author must not have been previously published in Open City
--Mail submissions to RRofihe, 270 Lafayette Street, Suite 1412, New York, NY
10012
--Enclose self addressed stamped business envelope to receive names of winner
and honorable mentions
--All manuscripts are non-returnable and will be recycled.
--Reading fee is $10. Check or money order payable to RRofihe
Rick Rofihe is the author of Father Must, a collection of short stories published
by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker,
Grand Street, Open City, Swink, Unsaid, and on epiphanyzine.com. His nonfiction
has appeared in The New York Times, The Village Voice, Spy, and The East Hampton
Star, and on mrbellersneighborhood.com. A recipient of the Whiting Writers’
Award, he has taught writing at Columbia University and the Writer’s Voice
of the West Side Y. He currently teaches privately. He is the editor of the
new online literary journal, anderbo.com.
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The
2007 RRofihe Trophy winner is
Barbara Fillon
of New York City
for her story
"The Peacock (10 Minutes in a Bird's Life)"
Honorable Mentions:
"Homebody" by Jessica Penner, New York City
"A Game of Thirds" by Rashanna Rashied-Walker of Brooklyn, New York
"The Pineapple Seller" by Cassandra Passarelli of Sacatapequez, Guatemala
"Dyads" by Jacob M. Appel, of New York City
The 2007 RRofihe Trophy Contest Assistant: Chalcey Wilding
The
2007 winning story will appear in OPEN CITY 25 in 2008.
(The 2006 winning story, "Reckoning", by Erin Brown of Charlottesville,
Virginia appeared in OPEN CITY 24 in late 2007.)
Winners receive $500 and a trophy.
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